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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 7</span><span class="fp-text">LE LOUP ET LE CHIEN</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula VII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">LUPUS AD CANEM</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Je dirai en peu de mots combien la liberté est douce.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quam dulcis sit libertas breviter proloquar.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un loup d'une maigreur excessive rencontra</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">un chien gros et replet. Après un salut,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ils s'arrêtèrent&nbsp;: «&nbsp;D'où vient, dit le loup, que ton poil est si brillant&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">où te nourris-tu, pour avoir un si bel embonpoint&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">moi, qui suis bien plus fort, je meurs de faim.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Ce bonheur sera le tien, répondit le Chien avec franchise,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">si tu peux rendre au maître les mêmes services que moi.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Quels sont-ils&nbsp;? —&nbsp;Garder la porte, et la nuit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">défendre la maison contre les voleurs.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Me voilà tout prêt&nbsp;: car maintenant j'ai à souffrir la neige,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">la pluie, et je traîne au fond des bois une vie misérable.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Qu'il me sera plus facile de vivre à l'abri sous un toit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et de trouver un bon dîner sans me donner de mal&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Viens donc avec moi. Chemin faisant, le loup voit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le cou du Chien pelé par l'effet de la chaîne.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Qu'est cela, ami&nbsp;? —&nbsp;Rien. —&nbsp;Dis-le moi, je te prie.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Comme on me trouve vif, on m'attache pendant le jour</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour que je dorme quand luit le soleil, et que je puisse veiller dès que vient la nuit ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le soir, on m'ôte ma chaîne, et je cours où je yeux.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On m'apporte du pain, mon maître</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">me donne des os de sa table, les valets me jettent quelques bons morceaux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et me laissent leur soupe dont ils ne se soucient guère.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ainsi, sans travailler, je me remplis le ventre.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Mais, dis-moi, si tu veux sortir, le peux-tu&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Pas tout à fait. —&nbsp;Jouis donc, mon ami, des douceurs que tu me vantes ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">quant à moi, je ne changerais pas ma liberté contre une couronne.</span></span></span></td>
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>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n98/mode/1up">p.35</a>]</span> Cani perpasto macie confectus lupus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">forte <span class="fp-correction" title="occurrit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">occucurrit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="occucurrit  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">occurrit</span></span>. Dein salutantes invicem</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut restiterunt&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Unde sic, quaeso, nites&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aut quo cibo fecisti tantum corporis&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ego, qui sum longe fortior, pereo fame.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Canis simpliciter&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Eadem est condicio tibi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">praestare domino si par officium potes.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Quod&nbsp;? inquit ille. —&nbsp;Custos ut sis liminis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">a furibus tuearis et noctu domum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Ego vero sum paratus ; nunc patior nives</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">imbresque in silvis asperam vitam trahens ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quanto est facilius mihi sub tecto vivere</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et otiosum largo <span class="fp-correction" title="saciari  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">satiari</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="satiari  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">saciari</span></span> cibo&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Veni ergo mecum.&nbsp;» Dum procedunt aspicit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">lupus a catena collum detritum canis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Unde hoc, amice&nbsp;? —&nbsp;Nihil est. —&nbsp;Dic quaeso tamen.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Quia videor acer, alligant me interdiu,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">luce ut quiescam et vigilem, nox cum venerit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">crepusculo solutus qua visum est vagor.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Adfertur ultro panis ; de mensa sua</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dat ossa dominus ; frusta jactat <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n99/mode/1up">p.36</a>]</span> familia</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et, quod fastidit quisque, pulmentarium.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sic sine labore venter impletur meus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Age, si quo est abire animus, est licentia&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Non plane est, inquit. —&nbsp;Fruere, quae laudas, canis ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">regnare nolo, liber ut non sim mihi.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/la-mouche-et-la-mule.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Loup_et_le_Chien">Le Loup et le Chien</a></div>
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